Four UK youths acting in the name of activist hacking collective Anonymous cost PayPal £3.5m as a result of cyber attacks carried out 2010 and 2011, a court has heard. The distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were carried ...
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Used iPhone values dropped as much as 8% at several trade-in firms after Apple announced the new iPhone 5 and cut prices for two older models yesterday. In the last week, the price quoted by NextWorth for a used 16GB iPhone 4S fell by 8%, ...
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On Marissa Mayer's first day in the big chair at Yahoo, she has to figure out which problem to tackle first in order to right a company that has been buffeted by scandal, financial trouble and, possibly worst of all, growing market ...
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Emarsys a leading provider of email, social and mobile marketing automation solutions is proud to announce that it is now ISO 27001 certified. One of the only email service providers to be granted the highest level of security ...
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Retailer Walmart has rolled out a new search engine based on semantic search technology, that not only helps users find items they want on its website, but also delivers results based on their interests and likely intent, the company said ...
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One of the great things about life in the 21st Century is that we have a whole set of interior design traditions to borrow from, and to mix and match. This helps us to add flourishes to our modern spaces that make statements – ...
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[Ask the iTunes Guy is a regular column in which we answer your questions on everything iTunes related. If theres something youd like to know, send an email to the iTunes Guy for consideration.] Among the many questions weve received ...
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Nicira is a start-up right out of the Silicon Valley playbook with a $1.26 billion ending, in just five years. VMware's decision, announced Monday, to buy this network virtualization company will likely be cited as a starring example of ...
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A Russian man has been arrested in Cyprus on charges that he launched denial-of-service attacks on Amazon.com and eBay in 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, 25, of Moscow, was arrested Wednesday, the ...
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Millennium Falcon Collectors toy is being sold for as much as £2,995. The price of Lego Star Wars collectables have shot up as more dads head online to buy them at Christmas. The Millennium Falcon Collectors toy is selling for as ...
$33.8bn has already been spent online this holiday season According to figures from internet analytics firm comScore, shoppers spent a record $1bn online on four separate days. As consumers increasingly access the internet on-the-go ...
With its popularity growing, Apache's Cassandra database for high-volume, real-time data management will be fitted with technical and query language improvements in the fall. The open source NoSQL database, which reached the 1.0 release ...
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Christie's today said it will auction off an Apple-1 computer from the firm's first batch, and predicted the machine will sell for as much as $126,000 when it hits the block in October. The Apple-1 -- which consisted of a circuit board ...
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Apple's cryptic invitation on Tuesday to an event set for next week triggered another surge in trade-in activity by consumers wanting to unload older iPhones in time to buy the new model. Some trade-in companies registered spikes on ...
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Trick-or-treating, costume parties and apple bobbing… Halloween conjures up plenty of fun childhood memories. The annual holiday is well-known with children across the world, with thousands dressing up in scary costumes on October ...
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